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£2.5m green space funding secured for Marston Vale forest
Over £2.5m has been secured from the Sustainable Communities Greenspaces Fund (SCGF) for projects in the Forest of Marston Vale, following a successful bid by registered charity, Marston Vale Trust.
The award follows a Vale site visit in 2003 by the minister of state for regeneration and regional development, Jeff Rooker, to observe successful projects already underway.
The exact figure available for the ‘breathing spaces’ projects in the Vale will be £2.664m and will allow the Trust to implement a series of radical programmes focused upon benefiting both the environment and surrounding landscape of the Vale.
The SCGF award will also enable local communities to have better access to the Vale’s countryside and natural areas while ensuring that environmental regeneration of the Vale continues in future generations to come.
Managing director of the Forest of Marston Vale, Tony Talbot, said: “We are delighted to have secured these funds for the Vale. Our aim is to ensure that the development taking place in the Vale benefits the forest and the people that live and work in the area.”
The forest team’s established projects and new strategic ideas include new woodland planting, the linking of communities with new green areas, integral flood alleviation schemes, well-designed accessible community woodland and new green space in selected areas to create links with the expanding urban fringe into the wider countryside area.
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